Apple iPad App Development Spiking, Flurry Says

App development for the Apple iPad spiked by 185 percent following the unveiling of the device on Jan. 27, mobile analytics company Flurry has found.

App development for the Apple iPad spiked by 185 percent following the unveiling of the device on Jan. 27, mobile analytics company Flurry has found.

Flurry also attempted to break down the app development by category. For example, on-line-centric companies developed 22 percent of the the iPhone apps, followed by companies founded to specifically create iPhone apps at 20 percent. About 19 percent of the apps were created by gaming companies, with, traditional media and bricks-and-mortar companies following at 17 percent each, and mobile-centric companies at 5 percent.

"Over six weeks since Apple announced the iPad, Flurry continues to measure a significant increase in iPhone OS new application starts within the system," Peter Farago, vice president of marketing for Flurry, wrote in a March 15 posting on the company's official blog. "We continue to attribute this growth to excitement generated by the impending launch of iPad a large portion of the applications we are seeing are custom version of existing applications tailors for the iPad."